James Merrill (1926 - 1995)

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James Ingram Merrill was born in New York City on March 3, 1926, the son of Charles Merrill, co-founder of the brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, and his second wife, Hellen Ingram. His parents were divorced in 1939. Merrill grew up in Manhattan and Southampton, New York. He was already writing poems by the time he was eight years old and when he was 16, at Lawrenceville School, his father had a book of Merrill's juvenile poems privately printed under the title of Jim's Book. Following Lawrence.. Continue..

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The Victor Dog

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	And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

- James Merrill

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